I reviewed the day's lesson that afternoon and had only a couple hours or less to come up with a decorated No Nonsense Nelly box.
Once I found an appropriate box, an old dog biscuit container, I was able to quickly find supplies we had in our home craft closet to create Nelly. She was much easier to make than I expected. Here's a pic of her. She even had a curly tail!
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| No Nonsense Nelly |
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| It's all in the eyebrows! |
What a shame to let her go to waste, so at the end of our following lesson, I brought back Nelly, changed her name to Nelly Nelly Fortune Telly and filled with lots of silly fortunes, some that I found online and some I created, and shared them with the girls. Nelly was then handed off to a GOTR participant to take home for a makeover and a refill of more fun surprises!
We are looking forward to meeting the new and improved Nelly!
Here are a few of the fortunes that were printed onto white paper and cut like fortune cookie fortunes:
You are fantastic inside
and out.
Your smile is like the
beautiful warm sunshine.
An apple a day keeps
the doctor away.
Express yourself and
don’t hold back.
How to be wise:
Listen with your ears and not your mouth.
Your dearest wish
will come true.
Your smile brings
happiness to everyone you meet.
Soon, you will be a
day older.
True wisdom is found
in happiness.
Good things take
time.
If you don’t give
anything, you won’t get anything.
Two small jumps are
sometimes better than one big leap.
A pleasant
experience is ahead; don’t pass it by.
If you have a dream, it is probably time to go to bed.
Everything is awesome; everything is cool when you’re part of a team.
If everyone is a worm, you are a glow worm.
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.
Today is the tomorrow we waited for yesterday.
You love peace.
Being happy is not always being perfect.
Be true to your teeth or your teeth will be false to you.
